The Portal* "Future Food - Meat without Livestock" focuses on possibilities for replacing animal products with products that are not derived from animals. These products can be divided into two groups: Vegetarian Meats, Non-Dairy Milk Drinks and Egg Replacements These products simulate or copy the animal derived products. There...

What if our current view of human history which Darwin's theory of evolution propagated is...

For the past few days on an internet forum, I've been discussing how government would be structured if I could erase all the boundaries and current government structures and start from scratch. I started with the idea that more power should be given to local governments and we should be moving towards the opposite direction of a globalized...

... that we are wrapping in the real time web. There’s a new sense of Now emerging from the web and it’s starting to become more present than the here and now in front of us. The events in our lives only seem to come into full existence as we post them online. A moment that can’t be digitized and shared in one form or another is...

When the Control System needs to pull in the reins on its feverish denizens, when it wants to...

Beyond politics,poverty & war. Check it out Here.

So I guess this would be it. I've had this account for over 3 months now, but I just haven't...

Exploring Posthuman Aesthetics “Thus a simple physical feeling is one feeling which feels...

Does anyone else see Michael Jackson as a transhumanist artist?

Many manifestoes have been written during the last century by architects wanting to lay claim to...

As the world's information sources steadily - if not exponentially - move from physical to digital media, what will become of libraries as we know them today? Will they disappear altogether? I would like to think that they will not. But what role can they fulfill? I believe that they may become simply centers for public internet access, or -...

Ares 1-X, a flight test rocket, is scheduled to launch today from Kennedy Space Center in Florida....

I was reading a post tonight, on one of my favorite forums, about someone who managed to live very cheaply without sacrificing spontaneity, happiness, wholesome meals, or mental health. He seemed to be... Free. I followed the posts to a link to "How to Drop Out" by Ran Prieur, and I found so much of myself in his writing that I wrote...

This past Saturday I worked with Mike Liebhold, Gene Becker, Anselm Hook, and Damon Hernandez to present the West Coast Augmented Reality Development Camp at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, Ca. By all accounts it was a stunning success with a huge turn-out of companies, engineers, designers, makers, artists, geo-hackers, scientists, techies...

“I cannot understand why human beings should be so little individualized. Why they should...

Personally, I love having my stupidity handed to me on a silver platter every now and again. It...

Artwork by Alex Grey I find myself here, situated in front of my computer at 1am (on a school...

I have some thoughts about new community. In Russia we have very corrupted police, law courts and...

If you have ever heard of Eric Van Danaken and the book Chariots Of The Gods? if you haven't search this in google and see for yourself if we were influenced by E.T.'s. Leave a comment of what you think Also just as a quick follow up. IF we were part of a big experiment to see if a civilization could exist on earth do you think they would...

Meet Gliese 581 C, an exoplanet 20.5 light-years away with certain signatures (like liquid...

this is much better than just torturing ants with a magnifying glass and the hot sun. pour...

Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth...

I've been studying my dreams for quite a few years now. For me the world of dreams presents...

"Theo Jansen, artist, studied science at the University of Delft Holland. The first seven...

HERES YOUR BIG CHANCE! The European Space Agency is looking for 12 volunteers with planetary...

Are we Cultural Creatives? Not to generalize, but I do get that feeling around here. It's a good feeling. Cultural Creative. I like the sound of it! I first encountered this term when I took one of those online quizzes that my friends were all taking (we are so interested in forming our identities from other people's ideas), What Is Your World...

From The New Yorker: Eric Sanderson is a landscape ecologist who is trying to determine exactly how...

Tired of the transient nature of digital artifacts, I recently decided to create something...

To imagine: in a few years we'll have people regularly living and working on the moon. And, someday, hopefully not too far off, the possibility of humans living on more than one planet for the first time in this history... how far we've come for monkeys with hats.

As the Secretary General of the United Nations, an organization of 147 member states who represent almost all the human inhabitants of the planet earth, I send greetings on behalf of the people of our planet. We step out of our solar system, into the universe, seeking only peace and friendship, to teach if we are called upon, to be taught if...

Turbulence, cont. from flight404 on Vimeo. Audio by Goldfrapp (Deer Stop), as found out by...

The evolutionary prospect of an ethical criterion Evolution is blind. No scientific theory...

I'm normally a cynical, angry bastard, but in the spirit of new beginnings, I've decided to make a list of five great things about 2007. Top Five things about 2007 5. Music- Despite what you hear on the radio and what you see on MTV, 2007 was a GREAT year for music. There were so many great releases this year, it made me hopeful for the...

Did you sleep well? Good! Enjoy your day! And for those of you who didn't - better luck...

I had a strange feeling today while at my day job. I happen to work alongside a friend of mine whom I was seeing in the past. However, things turned rocky, and we went our separate ways about two months ago. I hadn't been working since around the beginning of December, as I was placed on medical leave. Today was third day back, and the first...

Bipedalism, loss of body hair, subcutaneous fat, speech. Aquatic ape theory.

First we humans were able to cope with life. Nowadays we are able to alter it. Call it consious or...

The Library of Alexandria was an enormous repository of ancient wisdom situated in Egypt. Due to...

If there was something that you really believed and knew that if acted upon it could save...

Readers: Do you think in hypertext? The era of the linear tome is dead, information is a web -...

Today I was reading an interesting style website and they report that analyses: Robot love...

Most vegetarians and animal rights activists would say it is important to respect animals. I have...

An eloquent perspective by Terence McKenna on the idea of a spiritual path for all and an impending...

Our Conscious experience usually includes a level of self-awareness. As in The observer and the...

A short story that beautifuly depicts a possible path in our present to future leap. credit for...

tell me, what do you think?

"Onto what surface shall a theory of aesthetics and consciousness be mapped?" Gregory...

In a recent post by Connor, who is one of several recent SpaceCollective members whose...